Teddy Roosevelt: “Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved in this proclamation.”

I have just been shot.

The fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.

I am not sick at all. I am all right.

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.